My friends - As we move into the Labor Day holiday weekend, I have been able to find some time to convert one of the files contained on the old 5 inch floppies that I call my "miscellaneous files", and it is now ready for distribution. This file contains the 1850 slave census for McCracken County. The file contains some 200+ names of slave owners, and the ages of the male and female slaves which they hold. Unfortunately, the census did not require that the slaves' names be recorded. Owners' surnames include Garrett, Chapman, Herring, Johnston, Stephens, Smith, Jones, Vanmeter, Venable, Boone, Anderson, Violett, Harvey, Pell, Enders, North, Lawson, Kelley, Fisher, Rasor, Smedley, Grose, Geno, Elam, Dinwiddie, Harner, Matthews, Bronson, Harris, Jacobs, Rogers, Long, Wallace, Small, Grave, Gaither, Cish, Gardner, Lett, Joyce, Hendren, Lane, Crockett, Mahan, Lewis, Davis, Boone, Hurt, Riggs, Bonuin, Given, Maurons, Slee, Singleton, McCarty, Sanner, Finch, Graham, P'Pool, Dunn, Ratcliffe, Campbell, Bayne, Ogilvie, Ritter, Husbands, Saunders, Cutler, Crozier, Woolfolk, Flournoy, Ritter, Fuller, Rankin, Marshall, Norton, Lawrison, Farrar, Patton, Thornton, Woods, Rogers, Searcy, Grimes, Best, Castleman, Donnell, Kimble, Case, Larmon, Barbour, Yeatman, Kearney, Matlock, Hearn, Coffee, Rayland, Hazelwood, Lacy, Holland, Birrell, Patterson, Wyley, Wright, Hobbs, Rennick, Durrett, Brown, Settle, Thornberry, Quisenberry, Huntsaker, Williams, Robb, Rabb, Morrow, Alcock, Titsworth, Rudolph, Stanley, Moore, Choice, Lay, Hinton, Boswell, Sherrell, Grundy, Wilcox, Craig, Hall, Stovall, McElya, Parker, Hughes, Carruthers, Perry, Blanton, Linzey, Young, Harper, McNeal, Broyles, Enders, Grigsby, Rouse, Calhoun, Lancashire, Cowling, Lilly, Terrell, Rollison, McClure, Baleu, Ross, Shinn, Milliken, Morgan, Hynes, Neal, Starr, Rice, Canada and Goar. Subscribers to the JP and McCracken lists can obtain this file by sending a request directly to me. Please request the "McCracken Slave Census" file. This file is available only in rich text format (RTF), or in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Because it contains a table that was originally constructed in RTF, that format must be used in order to maintain the table attributes. Any word processor can read an RTF file, so this should not present any problems for anyone in opening the file. The file will be sent as an RTF attachment to an e-mail message unless PDF format is specified. Because of the size of this file, and the table attributes, this file cannot be sent in the body of an e-mail message, so "straight e-mailing", without attachment, of the file will not be possible in this case. If time permits, I will convert another file over this holiday weekend. -B =====================================================================